My thumb gently presses the handlebar throttle and the electric scooter I am wobbling on suddenly takes me on a high-speed slalom.
Weaving around pedestrians on a crowded high street, I ignore cries to slow down as well as a few chosen obscenities.
My adrenaline is pumping – I am engrossed in an exciting new game where humans have become skittles not to be knocked down. Welcome to the world of e-scooters, the latest travel craze to hit Great Britain.
I am motoring along at 15.5 miles per hour, the maximum speed permitted for the country s army of 10,000 e-scooter addicts currently menacing town centres up and down the length of Britain.
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Married couples and those in civil partnership can claim £9,800 through Bereavement Support Payment if their partner dies
Bereaved unmarried parents are still being denied thousands of pounds of vital support, a year after a landmark High Court ruling.
Married couples and those in civil partnership can claim £9,800 through Bereavement Support Payment if their partner dies a £3,500 initial lump sum plus 18 monthly payments of £350.
A judge ruled the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was breaching human rights by not giving help to children of unmarried parents but the Government is yet to act.
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